The Definitive Guide to ImageMagick

✍ Scribed by Michael Still (auth.)

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 348
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

An open source project backed by years of continual development, ImageMagick supports over 90 image formats and can perform impressive operations such as creating images from scratch, changing colors, stretching, rotating, and overlaying images, and overlaying text on images. Whether you use ImageMagick to manage the family photos or to embark on a job involving millions of images, this book will provide you with the knowledge to manage your images with ease.

The Definitive Guide to ImageMagick explains all of these capabilities and more in a practical, learn-by-example fashion. You'll get comfortable using ImageMagick for any image-processing task. Through the books coverage of the ImageMagick interfaces for C, Perl, PHP, and Ruby, you'll learn how to incorporate ImageMagick features into a variety of applications.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Installing and Configuring ImageMagick....Pages 1-30
Performing Basic Image Manipulation....Pages 31-49
Introducing Compression and Other Metadata....Pages 51-78
Using Other ImageMagick Tools....Pages 79-117
Performing Artistic Transformations....Pages 119-146
Performing Other Image Transformations....Pages 147-183
Using the Drawing Commands....Pages 185-262
PerlMagick: ImageMagick Programming with Perl....Pages 263-290
Implementing Your Own Delegate with C....Pages 291-299
RMagick: ImageMagick Programming with Ruby....Pages 301-310
MagickWand: ImageMagick Programming with PHP....Pages 311-317
Where to Go from Here....Pages 319-320
Back Matter....Pages 321-335

✦ Subjects

Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems